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* Fire the Consultants: Why do Democrats continue to hire campaign advisors who

lose races?

 

* Gov. Jeb Bush outlined a plan Tuesday to link Florida's Medicaid program to

private insurance companies that would set limits on health coverage.

 

* GOP bid to stall Gregoire is turned back: Democrats foil move for delay in

confirmation

 

* POORMAN: Rathergate vs. Saddam's WMD - A Quantitative Comparison

 

* POORMAN: Steve Gilliard vs, Jonah Goldberg

 

* CAMPAIGN DESK: " The next time this president -- or any president within the

next 20 years or so -- announces his or her intention to invade another country,

will the media be as meek as it was in the run-up to the war in Iraq? If you

really want to energize a press corps that had become intimidated and

complacent, it makes sense to take the country to war on false pretenses -- and

mislead the public on matters from tax cuts to Social Security. "

 

* CNN VS. FOX: " Howard Dean announced that he will be running for chair of the

Democratic National Committee. . . . CNN chose a distinguished picture of Dean

at a podium. Fox chose a screaming Howard Dean which is related to his downfall

this past election season. "

 

* ALTERCATION: " I am really tired of the implicit assumption in almost all MSM

reporting that evangelicals and other (non-Moslem, of course) religious

fundamentalists are more moral than the rest of us. Since when did we

secularists (religious and otherwise) cede the definition of morality to them?

If you ask me, its pretty damn immora to discriminate against gays and working

women, or to force a thirteen year old girl who has been raped by her father to

give birth to that child. Whats more, I dont find a literal reading of the

Bible, particularly the Old Testament, to be a very useful moral guide. Is

slavery really so terrific? Is it right to stone someone to death because they

gather sticks on the Sabbath? Well, its there in black and white. "

 

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" DitziSis " <mk2967

 

> * Fire the Consultants: Why do Democrats continue to hire campaign

> advisors who lose races?

 

The above is certainly true, " and " what is worse, Democrats also are

incapable of effectively challenging rigged elections. These notions aren't

mutually exclusive. In fact, if it's true that Dems are incapable of

effectively challenging rigged elections, within reason, and assuming

elections in the future, for various reasons, will be close, it doesn't

matter how effective our campaign advisors are.

 

 

> * POORMAN: Rathergate vs. Saddam's WMD - A Quantitative Comparison

 

Why do you buy the language? What " Rathergate? " Why do you continue to add

to the credibility of the charge that Rather plausibly acted wrongly in

releasing the memos for public consumption? There isn't a scintilla of

evidence that the memos are illegitimate in any substantive way; only a

politically motivated and broadly publicized Rovian pretense that there's

some major flaw in them. There is no Rathergate, but there is a Guardgate,

and certainly a Mediagate of staggering proportions.

 

 

> > * CAMPAIGN DESK: " The next time this president -- or any president

> > within the next 20 years or so -- announces his or her intention to

> > invade another country, will the media be as meek as it was in the

> > run-up to the war in Iraq? If you really want to energize a press corps

> > that had become intimidated and complacent, it makes sense to take the

> > country to war on false pretenses -- and mislead the public on matters

> > from tax cuts to Social Security. "

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Meek? If I agree with everything you say and do, after 100 years, do we

have the right to begin to suspect that you arent' agreeing with everything

I say and do out of fear or intimidation, or complaceny, or somnolence, or

inadequacy. Maybe I'm doing it because I'm tickled with what you're saying,

I love it, I live for what you say and do. In fact, maybe I've been waiting

forever to see you come along and make all my dreams come true. It's even

possible that I've been working my ass off, to get you where you are.

Maybe, media makes and breaks presidents. Maybe, just maybe, media calls

the shots.

 

 

> * ALTERCATION: " I am really tired of the implicit assumption in almost

all MSM reporting that evangelicals and other (non-Moslem, of course)

religious fundamentalists are more moral than the rest of us. Since when did

we secularists (religious and otherwise) cede the definition of morality to

them? If you ask me, its pretty damn immora to discriminate against gays and

working women, or to force a thirteen year old girl who has been raped by

her father to give birth to that child. Whats more, I dont find a literal

reading of the Bible, particularly the Old Testament, to be a very useful

moral guide. Is slavery really so terrific? Is it right to stone someone to

death because they gather sticks on the Sabbath? Well, its there in black

and white. "

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Why is the writer on the defensive? Maybe, examined carefully, the

evangelicals and fundamentalists should be on the defensive. The Christian

and other rightist fundamentalists don't inspire guilt or shame in me, they

inspire fear.

 

 

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> Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can

> change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - - Margaret

> Mead

 

 

 

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